Object card·SAL_0964·1966

Red-slipped closed wheel-made lamp, Rampart sector

Red-slipped closed wheel-made lamp, Rampart sector
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_0964. "Red-slipped closed wheel-made lamp, Rampart sector". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Closed wheel-made lamp of Hellenistic date with red slip, a tenon for the thumb reduced to a simple projection, and no handle; biconvex profile. Diameter 8.2 cm, filling hole diameter 2.3 cm, length 8.5 cm, height 3.6 cm, base diameter 3.9 cm. Complete; fine salmon-coloured clay, with red slip on the exterior and interior, flaking but preserved over the whole lamp; traces of fire on the nozzle. Square K V/α10; α23, Rampart sector, Salamis. Inventory L_0242; 23 September 1966.

French, as on the record

tenon pour le pouce réduit à une simple saillie ø = 8,2 ø troud’alimentation = 2,3 carre : K V/α10 dessin : D_2525 dessin : D_0678 diapositives : C_1005 inv objet : L_0242 negatif : 01888_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0055_p_0039 traces de feu au bec. Lampe tournée, au corps bien équilibré mais peu galbé trou d’alimentation bordé d’un anneau légèrement concave que limite un cercle assez profondément incisé Complète. Argile saumon, fine, recouverte extérieurement et intérieurement d’un vernis rouge, écaillé, mais conservé sur toute la lampe base en ressaut net, protubérance conique importante au fond du réservoir. L = 8,5 chantier : Rempart num planche : PL_02 objet : lampe ht. = 3,6. epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée forme : sans anse, profil biconvexe caracterique : à vernis rouge avec tenon num planche : PL_16 ø base = 3,9 negatif : 03394_01 carre : α23

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